Owl Post and Other Journeys with Professor Stephanie Paulsell
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Inspired by last week's chapter, Vanessa sits down with our mentor, Professor Stephanie Paulsell, to learn more about the theology of pilgrimages. They discuss the Japanese poet Bashō, their own Virginia Woolf pilgrimage, and Hagrid’s journey to the giants. Throughout the conversation they consider the question: Must you leave your house to make a pilgrimage?
This episode we also hear owl post from Danielle Daniels, Marcie Walker, Leah Bauman, Darlyn Summers, and Molly.
CW: This episode contains voicemails about some intense topics, including grief and miscarriage.
Next week, we'll be reading Chapter 21 of Order of the Phoenix, The Eye of the Snake, through the theme of Honesty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Vanessa Casper, Ariana. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi Casper, Ariana and Vanessa. |
| 0:05.7 | Do you have Vanessa, Casper, Ariana, and everyone who helps make this podcast possible? |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Vanessa Zoltan, and I'm Stephanie Palsow. |
| 0:13.0 | And this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text and Owl Post Edition. |
| 0:18.1 | Stephanie, it's so good to see you in the studio. |
| 0:20.2 | It always is. |
| 0:21.7 | We invited you here today to talk a little bit about pilgrimage. |
| 0:26.0 | We just read Hagrid's tale last week. |
| 0:29.6 | And I think there's an argument to be made that he and Maxime are on a sort of pilgrimage. |
| 0:35.4 | And you and I have been running this pilgrimage program together for the last couple of years |
| 0:40.1 | called Common Ground. |
| 0:42.2 | Last June you and I read to the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and went with 15 pilgrims |
| 0:46.6 | and walked through South Downs National Park and visited Rod Melv and Virginia Woolf's |
| 0:52.4 | house and really trod in the old paths that she had walked. |
| 0:58.2 | And so what I'm thinking about in trying to figure out what makes these trips sacred |
| 1:04.0 | for me and my own life is one that they have a sort of Sabbath quality to them where |
| 1:11.7 | it's a time out of time. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm not on my phone. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm not worried about things that I am traditionally concerned with. |
| 1:20.7 | I am in a present state on the pilgrimage. |
| 1:24.6 | And the other thing is that there's a real acquiescence to hospitality. |
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